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[QUOTE="GoSU96, post: 1658181, member: 114"]
With the IPF and Melo the teams that use the dome don't need it as a practice facility any more.     If the school wants to do a limited renovation on the dome that fine.  But to drop hundreds of millions of dollars on a facility up on a hill tucked inside a campus with limited access and parking is crazy.   You will never generate the revenue necessary to support that investment.   To hold the number and scale of events to support that investment will either entail constant disruption to student residents and/or smaller than needed attendance.

If it was up to me and I'm looking at spending that kind of money, I'm building from scratch, in a spot that has enough parking already in place, is in already in a hub that has multiple points of exit in every direction that feed into 81 and 690 in both directions.

You can't discount ease of access, robust parking, flat terrain for an aging local population, if you want to increase the attendance of marginally interested fans.

Also allows for constant use to generate the cash flows needed in a non disruptive way.    A configurable facility that can host full field (FB, Lax, Soccer), hoops, and hockey, along with concerts and other events is the way to go if you are spending that much money in a community this size.   You need almost 365 days of use.
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